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MUMBAI, Nov 10 (Reuters) - All-rounder Shane Watson and fast
bowler Mitchell Johnson will skip Australia's final one-day
international against India on Wednesday and head home instead.
World champions Australia clinched the seven-match series on
Sunday by taking a 4-2 lead with a six-wicket win.
Cricket Australia said in a statement on Tuesday that
Johnson and Watson were leaving India as they "continue to have
their workload managed ahead of the upcoming Australian summer
and the tour of New Zealand in March".
Watson was Australia's third highest scorer with 256 runs
and also claimed 10 wickets in six games, while Johnson took
nine wickets from five games to help propel the tourists to
victory after five players returned home with injuries.
Chief selector Andrew Hilditch said the pair had shouldered
a heavy workload since the ICC World Twenty20 in May 2009 and
would return home to prepare for the test series with West
Indies) starting on Nov. 26 and the programme that follows.
Australia will play six tests in eight weeks plus one-day
international and Twenty20 series against West Indies and
Pakistan before touring New Zealand next year.
(Writing by Sanjay Rajan; Editing by Ken Ferris. To query or
comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com) Updated on Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 7:29 am, EST Email to a Friend | View Popular
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